A short time ago we felt an earth tremor shake the house (I’ve just had the bloody thing re-stumped – I thought). Twenty minutes of frantic Googleing and we had the answer a quake measured at magnitude 4.6 occurred north of Korumburra (aprox 92km away) was reported by Geoscience Australia. A short time after this [...]
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George Lawrence – Go Fly a Kyte
30/1/08 – 17:28
Slashdot has a nice item on an attempt to reproduce the work of Kyte-Photographer George Lawrence. In 1906, after the San Francisco quake, Lawrence used a rig of kites to fly a 46lb panoramic camera over the devastated area to record the destruction. He did that same thing three years later to show the success [...]